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Brexit noise and fury fades as EU moves on to bigger issues

The European Union is making it abundantly clear that it has more important issues to worry about than Britain’s departure from the bloc.

24.09.2017

(Bloomberg) The European Union is making it abundantly clear that it has more important issues to worry about than Britain’s departure from the bloc.

Now that the EU is finally out of crisis mode, it’s more interested in working on defence, monetary union and human rights than Brexit, according to the European Commissioner for Jobs and Investment Jyrki Katainen. He says that, aside from those officials specifically tasked with dealing with the UK’s exit talks, the rest of the Commission doesn’t even touch the subject on a weekly basis.